Ultrastrong and Flexible Hybrid Hydrogels based on Solution Self-Assembly of Chitin Nanofibers in Gelatin Methacryloyl (GelMA)

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 (USA) ; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (USA).
• ² Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02139 (USA) ; Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 (USA).
• ³ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 (USA).
• ⁴ Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02139 (USA) ; Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 (USA) ; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115 (USA) ; Department of Bioindustrial Technologies, College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Konkuk University, Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-701, Republic of Korea ; Department of Physics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21569, Saudi Arabia.